{"product_id":"garden-at-monceau","title":"Garden at Monceau","description":"\u003cb\u003eCarmontelle’s landmark publication,\u003ci\u003e Garden at Monceau\u003c\/i\u003e, beautifully reproduced to show the Parisian garden’s artistic and cultural importance before the French Revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Originally published in 1779, \u003ci\u003eGarden at Monceau \u003c\/i\u003eis a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d’Orléans, duc de Chartres. With its array of architectural follies intended to surprise and amaze the visitor, the garden was a setting for ancien régime social life. Carmontelle’s portrayal of his work in \u003ci\u003eGarden at Monceau \u003c\/i\u003etherefore serves as an expression of a key moment in the history of European landscape design, garden architecture, and social history. This facsimile edition, with its English-language text and reproductions of the original engravings, is accompanied by essays that interpret the landscape design and examine Carmontelle’s larger career as a painter and theater producer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistributed for the Foundation for Landscape Studies and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219673436504,"sku":"9780300254686","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780300254686.jpg?v=1771309838","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/garden-at-monceau","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}